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bloke wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 5:48 pm I'm getting old.
Not only have I seen those before, I've had one or two of those here.

Heck with the amount of stuff that must go through your shop/barn, I'm impressed you remember having seen them before and remember owning one or two, regardless of age.




And I'm not being sarcastic...

York-aholic wrote: Tue Jul 22, 2025 4:31 pmPerhaps an old peashooter contrabass G bugle?

No, those are about eight inches long and smaller bore. (Think bass trombone.)

Staring at these Holton bits (which - surprisingly to many, perhaps) are still available new and for a not-particularly-high price) it seems to me that they would do reasonably well with a Martin 6/4 tuba...

...after the insertion section (at the back end) was un-soldered and replaced with an insertion tube that properly fits the Martin mouthpipe's bits receiver, yes?

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MiBrassFS wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 1:19 pm They will work with Martins. You might even just get away with sanding the tenon a bit to fit the Martin receiver. I used some of these for a while on a Martin.

Just don’t sand too much…

yeah...and these can be sold to Martin owners - shiny-new - for $100 (roughly the price of a tank of regular gas for a pick-up truck in yankee-land) with the dealer/repair-guy ending up with a decent little mark-up.